Rate My Professor Bart Eeckhout

Eeckhout is an internationally recognized expert on the modernist poet Wallace Stevens, having authored or edited seven books on the topic, including Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2002), Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens (Bloomsbury, 2016), The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and The New Wallace Stevens Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Since 2011, he has edited The Wallace Stevens Journal. His research spans modernist poetry, LGBTIQ+ studies and queer theory, urban studies with a focus on New York City, and interdisciplinary connections between literature, philosophy, architecture, and music. He has led projects such as 'Wallace Stevens as a World Poet,' 'Happiness and Agency in Queer Young Adult Literature,' and 'Queer Sounds: Music in Antwerp's LGBT Subculture (1960-2010).' Eeckhout teaches courses like Literary Theory 2, Poetry Lab, Stevens Seminar, Joyce Seminar, and New York City 1880-2020: Cultural History and Literary Representations across bachelor and master programs in linguistics, literature, and translation.